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Even more attractive haha.

I did! I don't blame her at all. LOL! That's wild. So I just looked up the Coop character and I didn't realize John Driscoll was playing him! I had a huge crush on him in my 20s haha. I wonder what he's doing these days, he doesn't seem to be an actor anymore. That makes me so happy to hear. I could tell through a few interviews I've listened to that both Liz and Maureen knew Jerry's wife well and always joked about how she was the boss of the family and always had to get him straight on technology, etc. haha.

I totally didn't even notice that! I know she got married in real life, but interesting to add the middle name in the mix.

LMAO!!! Hey, I'm all for single cougars getting their second wind and finding younger men, but not Cooper's age LOL. That's just so wild to me.

Wait, Beth and Coop are in a relationship?? I get the concept of SORAS, but that one is a REAL stretch. I was even shocked when PJ mentioned that Beth and Bill get together later at some point. That Beth really rocks the cradle, wow. And to think she used to give Vanessa crap for dating young men....

LMAO! So funny... and I thought the same thing about Jon Lindstrom and his positions on GH and BTG today.

LOL at them using a manual check-in/check-out paper log at a motel in 2025.

Same! Loved their exchange today, it was so good.

It doesn't bother me much, but this is what I'm curious about - the why just two.

Me too. And it's so funny switching over to GH and Jon's there today too haha. Did he replace Ben Gavin then, or was Ben in Friday's opening? I can't remember, but it seemed like we still had an even number of people in today's opening.

Ohhh they added Jon Lindstrom to the opening! I guess he's contract now. I didn't notice any new pictures for others though.

This might be a long shot, but GL was nominated for Best Writing in 1998. Anyone know what episodes were submitted to get that nomination? Curious what storylines or special episodes got them that nom. Surely couldn't have been the clone storyline unless it was when Dolly died maybe. Is there a website that has a centralized list of what episodes performers and shows submit each year to get nominated?

Happy they're bringing back those memories! :) I forgot to mention earlier when @Spoon asked me my predictions for the Ben character going forward, and they've been teasing that he might be the young college kid that slept with Selena. So I'm assuming they'll continue with that, which would be interesting to see him interact with other characters. I do agree that Brittany Snow was a great find, proven by her current success, but my early days of Susan are not positive. She's got an agenda it seems and her whining is getting annoying. I know she stays for a while, so I'm looking forward to getting through that journey and see how her character matures. The Beth thing seems like a pure plot move just to further her into Vanessa/Matt's drama. You're right, it doesn't really make sense, and she never really seemed like the type to me that wants to work, especially from the lowest position on the totem pole haha. I actually really like Signy Coleman. She's unique in certain ways which I like. I just think it's a stretch for her to be Annie, but I'm going along with the ride haha. I think the truth serum drug is getting out of hand and lasted way longer than it should though. Re: Mindy, I can't quite remember if that's why she left (testifying against Rick), but here are my quick notes I made when watching her exit from 1995. This was very early into my GL watch journey, so I didn't have as much context on the Mindy character and the recasts before her when making these notes: Mindy just left the country and from what I read online, this was Crampton's last episode (May 26, 1995). What a very unceremonious exit, wow. She just tells Josh she's leaving for a business meeting overseas randomly at Eve's memorial and then she's gone. I guess she either pissed someone off BTS or asked to leave pretty abruptly and they just said fine, later?

LOL - Oh my! They all look shocked... did someone interrupt the wedding? Let me guess, Phillip? Lillian and Beth look great in this photo.

Oh nice, thank you! What a wonderful tribute.

Happy Anniversary AMC! I agree, my bias aside haha, but I'm surprised AMC isn't still with us. But I'm thankful for the many years we got :)

This was so beautiful, I'm so very very happy they did this. I can't believe they allowed her last name to be misspelled, but it isn't the first time I've seen errors in names/characters in the closing credits. Probably some 20-somethings in the office who didn't care and had no QA reviews unfortunately.

This was a lovely tribute, thanks again for posting! I wish Fiona's connection was better, but I'll take what we can get, I think this was during the early Covid years. LOL at her calling Rauch an overbearing male producer. The ladies all laughing after that is very telling at how popular he wasn't with them. Seeing Simms, I didn't realize, or I forgot if y'all told me, that Roger/Mindy had such a close connection/storyline together. I only saw Mindy's last few months on the show and she never really interacted with Roger. That reminds me, Mindy's departure in 1995 was one of the first departures for me and it made me realize that GL just doesn't do a good job of sending characters off. She just left overnight and there was a throw away line that she went off to Europe (or something like that). It was interesting to hear the ladies talk about when they first noticed his speech going (26:00 mark), which Fiona was first to notice. She thought maybe he was losing his hearing first, or then perhaps having a stroke. But it made me think back to Jenna's return in Dec 1996 and I just don't really remember Roger and Jenna having much interaction on the show then. Her return storyline was pretty siloed with Jenna/Buzz/Jeffrey and Harley/Phillip. Anyway, I wish Rauch would have listened to literally everyone and allowed Zaslow to stay and let Holly take care of him. The alternative was just recasting him and then shipping him out of town? What was the point. I loved seeing Jerry pop in as a surprise. So sad to think he died a year later from this interview :( I wonder how close Jerry and Liz Keifer were in the years after GL was canceled. Zaslow's daughter is very sweet. Is she Asian or was Zaslow's wife Asian? I tried to google and couldn't find anything, but I did read that his second daughter sadly passed in 2004 at 19 years old which was so sad to read too.

This 100% sums up my thoughts after watching it :)

I LOVE that song, so I'm already hooked :) That's great to know though about the ratings, good for them! I had no idea how popular they were until today, thank you all!

There's the P.J. I know and love! LOL :) You're right about William and Larry... and about Vince Williams. I was always so sad they never acknowledged him. He just disappeared. There was real potential with Hamp and Marcus, given they both played the sax. He could have been a mentor to him. But I guess Vince perhaps wasn't able to work much during that time and then we just got Griffin instead and Marcus stopped playing the sax after a while.

YES! I was so happy to see/hear that, especially the "I already have" reply. Although I'm guessing you may not have loved her saying Matt is right :P Here is what I wrote in my notes about that scene: Matt leaves and Jenna’s spirit shows up for Vanessa, telling her she agrees that she’s spending more time with work over family. She needs to always put family first over anything. Jenna makes her promise not to let Matt slip away and to cherish the gift she’s been given, and Vanessa promises. Vanessa asks Jenna to kiss Henry for her (her father), and Jenna says she already has and he looks marvelous. They have a tearful goodbye and it was so sweet. I also saw that she visited Holly. THIS should have been the moment that made Holly snap out of it and turn her life around, but I know it won't be since she hasn't kidnapped any of the kids yet :/ Thank you for posting this! I'll have to watch it later today. Zaslow died on Dec 6th, 1998, which was the Sunday before Jenna passed away on-screen which is interesting (the 12/04 Friday cliffhanger was Jenna crashing and then Monday 12/07 she died). Unfortunately I haven't seen or heard any acknowledgment about MZ's death on the show, but I guess in real life, his passing would have happened while they were taping likely Feb/Mar 1999 episodes? They aired a classic episode of GL the day after New Year's 1999, I wonder if that would have been MZ-centric?

I love your passion here! :) And thank you for the details! Definitely makes sense why Alex/Beth are close here in late 1998. You know I love a good umbrella story, can't wait to see it! So I've been watching more episode this morning because I wanted to see how they honored Jenna... is it her spirit getting closure with everyone? Because I'm really enjoying those moments. Some are very sweet and some are very emotional and sad. I really liked what they did here, just to give her the ability to say goodbye to everyone special to her.

Ohhh, I can't wait for this bolded part! Does it happen soon after or quite a long time after? You know, I didn't really enjoy Jenna's return storyline, which was my first introduction to the character. It felt a bit siloed, went on too long, and I didn't really enjoy Jeffrey. But, the one thing I did love about Jenna was how she made Buzz tolerable, and once Jeffrey was gone, and Jenna was more of a supporting character, I really started enjoying her and their relationship. The death scenes really got to me too, it was very heartbreaking. I knew she was eventually going to die through spoilers, but didn't know when or how... and had zero idea that Holly was sort of in the middle of it, so that was interesting to me. Thanks to you too for the background on Alex/Beth and then Beth/LuJack, etc!

Ahh, that makes sense, because Beth and LuJack were together for a bit, right? I was thinking it was a combination of both - they wanted to let her go because she was outspoken, but she wanted to go because she hated the way they treated Zaslow... is that right? The whole situation is so sad. :( Hmmm... it seems like Ben/Blake/Ross are in a stable truce now after he realized his mother actually did love him. I don't think Ross/Blake get back together for a while, so I'm going to guess that Ben and Blake give it a try dating with no outside pressures or secrets that have to be hidden. I doubt they last, but I'm going to guess that's what happens in the near-term. I'd love to see him be more human to everyone now and maybe make a friend here and there (beyond just Beth, who is now in another storyline and nowhere near Ben these days).